NFL-Appointed Investigator Finds No Evidence NFL Lied About Ray Rice Video

NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL unsuccessful to examine a Ray Rice box properly, former FBI executive Robert S. Mueller pronounced in a news that also pronounced he found no justification a joining perceived a video of a Ravens using behind knocking out his fiancee in a casino elevator.

“The NFL should have finished some-more with a information it had and should have taken additional stairs to obtain all accessible information about a Feb. 15 incident,” Mueller pronounced in a matter after releasing his 96-page report.

Mueller pronounced he can find no justification a joining perceived a video display Rice distinguished his fiancee before it was published online in September. A law coercion central showed The Associated Press videos of a occurrence and pronounced he mailed a DVD to NFL domicile in April.

The news pronounced a examination of phone annals and emails of NFL employees showed no justification that anyone in a joining had seen a video before Commissioner Roger Goodell primarily dangling Rice for dual games.

The private investigation, though summons power, did not embody any hit with a law coercion central who showed a AP a videos. The officer played a AP a 12-second voicemail from an NFL bureau series antiquated Apr 9, in that a lady verifies receipt of a DVD and says: “You’re right, it’s terrible.”

The official, who insisted on anonymity since he was not certified to share a evidence, told a AP on Thursday he didn’t pronounce with investigators.

“I took stairs to safeguard a call from any chairman during a NFL wouldn’t be traced behind to me and we was never contacted by a group of investigators hired by a NFL to examine a NFL,” he said. “I still don’t know who reliable receiving a video and we don’t know what that chairman did with it.”

“We have reviewed a news and mount by a strange reporting,” pronounced Kathleen Carroll, a AP’s executive editor.

“The Mueller group did ask us for source element and other newsgathering information, though we declined. Everything that we news and endorse goes into a stories. We do not offer adult reporters’ records and sources.”

Giants owners John Mara and Steelers President Art Rooney, a group allocated by Goodell as liaisons to a investigation, pronounced a 32 group owners were briefed in a discussion call Thursday morning. They all voiced their faith Goodell told a law via a investigation.

They reiterated their subsidy of Goodell, whose pursuit never seemed in danger notwithstanding a missteps by a joining in a Rice box and calls for inspection of him from outward groups.

“There was resounding support for Roger,” Rooney said. “There’s a really clever certainty in Roger going brazen in terms of him being a commissioner of a league.”

Still, Mueller found a NFL’s esteem to a law coercion routine involving Rice “led to deficiencies in a league’s collection and research of information during a investigation.” He combined such an proceed “can encourage an sourroundings in that it is reduction critical to know precisely what a actor did than to know how and when a rapist probity complement addresses a event.”

Mueller’s news sum some of a efforts a NFL done in receiving a video, though pronounced a joining should have taken additional stairs to find out what happened inside a elevator.

“League investigators did not hit any of a military officers who investigated a incident, a Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office, or a Revel to try to obtain or perspective a in-elevator video or to obtain other information,” a news said. “No one from a joining asked Rice or his counsel either they would make accessible for observation a in-elevator video they perceived as partial of rapist find in early April.”

The news also pronounced a joining didn’t follow adult on initial conversations with a Ravens to establish either a group had some-more information.

The central showed a AP mixed videos from a casino a night Rice was arrested. Those videos enclosed confidence cameras from inside and outward a conveyor and dual cellphone videos that enclosed some audio.

The joining pronounced it deliberate a video published by TMZ in Sep to be new justification meriting an unfixed suspension. Its presentation drew renewed recoil to a joining from women’s organizations, members of Congress and players — all job for some-more fact on how a NFL rubbed a case.

Mara and Rooney pronounced Mueller done 6 recommendations that a owners will review. They concluded that a league’s process on domestic assault was insufficient.

“We were delayed to react, and in a box of Ray Rice, a strange punishment was insufficient,” their matter said. “In addition, a stairs taken by a NFL to examine this matter were inadequate. Since then, a new process concerning domestic assault and other manners for control violations have been put into place.”

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AP Pro Football Writer Rob Maaddi and AP Sports Writer Jimmy Golen contributed to this report.

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